Sachin Billion Dreams

First time I heard about Sachin, when I am in school days!!! I didn’t remember did our friends talking about Vinod Kambli or Sachin Tendulkar. I didn’t seen much of cricket in Sachin’s earlier days. ’96 world cup, where all started. I am big fan of Kapil Dev, because of his advertisements and the world record of 434 wickets. Always India required a sensation like Kapil Dev and Superstar around.

Sachin I saw him in 96 world cup, everybody delighted to see Sachin batting, I saw wizard of batting Brian Lara too, what a wonderful to see both the batsmen on their peak. I saw the complete innings of 137 against Srilanka in a league match after that, Semi-finals and our heart broken. I saw ups and downs of Indian cricket team, but not missed to say “Is Sachin still on crease?” “How much Sachin scored today?” Buying the posters, practicing the legend’s signature, Style of ‘T’ we followed regularly. What happened in Sharjah, my family members slept, thought India will lose, but for me still Sachin is there, there he goes played a wonderful innings. On morning, I am discussing with friends and family how he strongly stood against the storm. On Finals again he did the magic and India won the series. Later we are not available with the TV, soon had the radio.

In 1999 One Sunday we are back from mass, heard the radio commentary, Sachin is batting one of the test match, India had a strong hold because Sachin is still in crease. But blow which made India to lose. Even though India lose, we had a cry Despite of Sachin’s innings why India need to lose. As a captain against Australia he had a great record., sometimes, he left his legacy for the new comers like Saurav, Laxman, Dravid later for Sehwag, Dhoni & Yuvraj.

He is a champion cricketer in ODIs but Test cricket is not his cup of tea. But he proved in that area too. His dream of capturing the world cup came true, our dream is to see the great Sachin Tendulkar playing his innings came true.